"We need travel bans because Ebola quarantines are released !!!!"

This scenario has been typical in the fight against Ebola. It isn't necessarily the families that contract the disease, but, the health care workers surprised by the presentation of the virus in their hospital.

In Spain a nursing assistant died from the virus. It is the intimate contact that comes from caring for someone infected that spreads the disease. Health care workers are at most risk and when they aren't equipped with protective gear a nightmare becomes a reality.

The biggest complaint in West Africa is that burial ceremonies involve preparing the body by washing. It is those that come in contact with the deceased that contract the virus. It isn't casual contact that causes the increase in deaths.

October 19, 2014

By Aliyah Furmin

...Republican lawmakers (click here) on Sunday continued to pile on President Obama’s refusal to ban flights from West Africa amid the Ebola crisis. They also blasted hisappointment of former White House official Ron Klain to coordinate the U.S. response to the deadly virus.

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, where multiple people have been infected with Ebola, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Obama’s “biggest mistake” is continuing to allow open commercial flights. “We need to take a common-sense stand of suspending commercial air travel out of these countries … And for whatever reason, the Obama White House doesn’t want to,” he said.

GOP Rep. Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania repeated the call for a ban on “Fox News Sunday,” going so far as to say “this is like dealing with terrorism,” adding, “We have to be right 100% of the time, and Ebola only has to get in once.”...

So very typical of Republicans, they don't educate even themselves but simply reverberate populous rants. If they BOTHERED to be a LEADER rather than a dog chasing it's next 'culture of fear' bone, they might actually find reasons to be encouraged about the expertise found in the USA.

Now tell me this level of panic wasn't apparent with HIV. The exception this time is the virus is already known and it is known how to contain it. But, there was levels of fear such as "...It is in the tears of the infected..."

Why are those infected with Ebola not contagious until they have a fever?

The reason they aren't contagious until they have symptoms of a fever is because of 'viral load.' When a fever develops it isn't because the virus just showed up, but, because it was successful in replicating and growing in larger concentrations. A single virus in a single tear from a person's eye is not going to transmit the virus, but, body fluids with large numbers of virus has 'the opportunity' to infect others. It isn't one virus that causes symptoms, it is many that infect the body.